Need information & Picture: '69 Yenko Camaro
 

Hi everyone ! i'm new on the forum. I need your help for something, in fact i need to know where i can found some pics and info on this car ! At the beginning i was thinking this car was the 69 Yenko drive by Ed Hedrick but i was wrong ! The Ed Hedrick Yenko don't have a vinyl roof and a hood like this, and also she don't have the same stickers ! I hope someone can help me ! Thanks !
https://www.yenko.net/attachments/use...-yenkorace.png

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Nice car bro...i also want to know about it..

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I had the opportunity to see that car at the 1st annual Yenko reunion. The car that that time was owned by Cliff Ernst. I assume he still owns it. It had a tunnel ram on the 427. Very nice guy with an amazing collection of Yenkos!

There should be some coverage in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSp3RzlrJHE

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Thanks Andy ! Someone else got pictures or more infos ?

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Nobody else ?

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All of this collection was featured in an article in Super Chevy I believe it was, or if not, then Chevy High Performance magazine close to 10 or so years back.
I still have a copy of it - but not available to me at this time.
I belive he was located somewhere in Ga. and he had one Yenko of every colour and transmission combination or something like that - plus a few 'spares' like the one pictured - as well as a ZL1 and a few other neat cars.
The article had quite a lot of pictures showing many of the beautiful cars he had housed in a very nice building/showroom which is partially shown in the picture you posted..
Maybe if you Google either Super Chevy or Chevy High Performance mag sites or contact them you may get additional info as to where or how to view the article of even purchase a copy of it..
Randy

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Click here

And here...


And here....all at your fingertips on Google!

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Can't get any other words than &quot;wow&quot; out.............. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/Can-I-Have-It.gif[/img]

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You da <span style="font-size: 26pt"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="text-decoration: underline">MAN</span></span></span></span> Bruce! Nobody does it better!! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

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Additionally, here are a couple more links from a quick Super Chevy Magazine website search:

http://www.superchevy.com/features/c...o/viewall.html

http://www.superchevy.com/features/c...ar_collection/

As I mentioned back issues are probably available - but all of the links probably give you as much info and pictures as you need..

Randy

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Thank everyone !

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Andy</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I had the opportunity to see that car at the 1st annual Yenko reunion. The car that that time was owned by Cliff Ernst. I assume he still owns it. It had a tunnel ram on the 427. Very nice guy with an amazing collection of Yenkos!

There should be some coverage in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSp3RzlrJHE </div></div>

I was there too. Yep, cool car.

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Cliff was the one I purchased my Yellow '69 Yenko Camaro from back in... 1998 or 1999. If I remember he had like 22 '69's, 7 in Yellow? Mine was nicknamed &quot;hairy&quot; due to the wild cam it had, and the 5:13's. Was a fun car, nice guy.

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When he first got into Yenkos, Cliff used to drag race, until he was told that it would be in the best interest of his family, various companies he owned and employees if he choose a less dangerous past time.

This Camaro was the one that he raced, but had been taken back to pretty much stock until SCR1, when he had it set up as seen in that picture.

Cliff did not know it then, but setting in his showroom at this time was one of two drag cars once sponsored by Yenko, the Preston-Lawrence drag car, a DY Camaro.

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This 1969 Daytona Yellow Yenko was restored for Cliff Ernst by me, back in 1990. The inspiration to add some super stock features came about a few years later, prior to the first Supercar Reunion, that, Tom Clary organized. I was Cliff's restorer for a few years and a huge fan of these cars. Cliff and Bill Porterfield considered doing some match racing, prior to this car's receiving the Super Stock add-ons. In 1990 the car was restored, with this intention, and a warmed over 427 was assembled. Bill took the number 1 ZL-1 a little further, performance-wise, than anticipated, and match racing was deemed unrealistic. I suggested adding some eye appeal to Cliff's collection, somewhat paying tribute to Ed Hedrick's Daytona Yellow Super Stocker. Cliff did participate in some musclcar drags in the late 1980's with a Hugger Orange 1969 Yenko Camaro.

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Mike, Welcome to the site [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

..... Did you attend Super Chevy Show in Petersburg Va. ( about a year ago ) ?

.... I may have have met you there.

.... I remember talking with someone that said that he and his dad did some of the restoration for Cliff.

.... Was that you?

Enjoy this site..... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/3gears.gif[/img]

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I haven't been to the Super Chevy shows in a while, but the situation of my dad and I doing car work together is true, though not for Cliff. I worked for Cliff just about 10 years. I still fondly look back on those years. I have been away from his collection for about 14 years.